Fantasy Comes Alive in New Zealand

By Melissa Rose Kimbler
URL: http://www.moviemaker.com/locations/article/location_of_the_week_new_zealand_20080430/
When The Lord of the Rings trilogy became a cultural phenomenon, people no longer had to imagine J.R.R. Tolkien’s mystical, supernatural universe; Peter Jackson had found it in New Zealand. The country’s rich variety of landscapes, from the rolling pastures of the North Island to staggering mountains on the South Island, helped bring to life what was previously only a fiction.